Monster Heavenly King - Chapter 36



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36. Oak Village (3)

Kwakwang!

The torrent of water hit the ground, creating a tremendous noise.

Enough to make the ground shake.

Hyunseong dodged to the side before the attack could reach him and his teeth chattered in surprise.

“… Isn’t the power a bit too strong?”

If it hits, it’s so powerful that you literally can’t even pick up a bone.

I was wondering if this was something that the monsters that appear on the second floor could use.

-Because there’s a river nearby.

“Crazy, was that related?”

-Of course. That’s common sense.

“It’s not common sense to me?”

Hyunseong runs towards the lizardman while shouting like that.

If this kind of attack continues, one mistake will lead to a goal.

A decision had to be made quickly.

“Kyaak!”

A staff raised high with the roar of a lizardman.

The magical power that had gathered like a storm stirred once again.

and,

Swish!!

“Shit.”

I cursed without realizing it at the sight.

This time, the water stream that rose was not one, but three.

All three streams of water were rushing towards him.

Boom! Kwah! Kwak!

A heavy sound that makes it hard to believe it’s water and ground colliding.

Hyunseong, who had reached the lizardman while avoiding the water stream, swung Seol-ah without hesitation.

but,

“Whoa?!”

A guy who quickly falls back and runs away to the river.

I don’t know how it worked, but the guy was walking on the river.

Did he think that if he got there, they wouldn’t be able to catch him?

“Then that would be a big mistake!”

Hyunseong kicked the river hard with a shout.

Jjajajajajak!

Countless ripples appear on the surface of the river.

Hyunseong was literally running on the river.

If a martial artist had seen it, he would have said it was a prize-winning article, but strictly speaking, it was not a prize-winning article.

‘I’m just running.’

His body, consisting of nothing but bones, was so light that he could run just by kicking the water off.

A common saying about running on water is ‘stepping with your right foot before your left foot sinks’, and he was executing that method perfectly.

“What?!”

The guy looks embarrassed, as if he didn’t know that he would follow along like this.

The lizardman hurriedly struck the surface of the water with the staff he was holding.

Then, the calm water began to move and create ripples, and the ripples grew larger and larger, creating waves.

Chomp!

The surging waves eventually became a wall and a shield that blocked Hyunseong’s sword.

His own attacks are blocked by a wall of water.

“Tch.”

He clicked his tongue lightly and went back to sleep.

Since I didn’t have any magical ability to stand on the surface of the water like the Lizardman, I had to keep moving to avoid falling.

The guy seemed to have changed his tactics, as this time instead of a stream of water, a sphere made of water rose from the river.

but,

“Are you going to compete with sheep?”

The number of these spheres was considerable.

Excessively large water droplets that easily pass over a spot.

They were all shot at Hyeonseong.

Pubberbubung!

There was no explosive force as strong as a stream of water, but rather a chain of small explosions.

Dodging wasn’t a problem, but running properly was difficult because of the water shaking from the explosion.

The lizardman smiled triumphantly as Hyunseong was unable to even approach properly due to the indiscriminate attacks.

“I thought it was a pretty interesting skeleton, but is that all there is to it?”

A guy who spouts lines like a third-rate villain from a novel.

Seol-ah rang the sword sound at the lizardman’s words.

-Are you going to just sit still after hearing something like that?

“Can’t you see that I’m moving around hard?”

From the moment he started fighting the guy, his feet were kicking the water hard without any rest.

Hyunseong cursed inwardly.

‘It’s so damn hard to spread the word.’

Since Park Cha’s sleep was unstable, his power was also unstable.

If he had used the higher level of watercraft, the ability to walk on water as if it were flat ground, the outcome would have been decided long ago.

but,

‘If I had known this would happen, I would have learned the basics.’

He himself was unable to spread out his balance.

The Dengpyeongdosu was not a technique that could be used just because one had high martial arts skills.

The name itself is considered a separate realm, and it feels like a side story that requires special enlightenment and know-how.

The reason why he had not learned such equal degrees was simple.

‘Because there was no need to fight on the water.’

Although he had escaped by unfolding his water shield, he had never fought on water, literally displaying his martial arts skills.

Well, how many martial arts are there that assume fighting on water in the first place?

‘It would have been better if we had come out of the water and fought.’

Besides, it wasn’t easy to learn.

There were fewer people who wanted to learn without feeling the need, and naturally, the number of martial artists who could practice it decreased.

It was for this reason that the level of Dengpyeongdosu was considered legendary even among the martial arts world.

‘You can’t regret what you don’t have.’

If I could unfold it with regret, I would have regretted it a hundred times more.

A crimson glow rose from inside Hyunseong’s skull as he dodged the water bullets.

As if he had figured out a way to defeat the lizardman.

“Go lizard.”

Hyunseong grits his teeth while aiming at Seol-ah.

He kicked the surface of the water with force.

Then,

BANG!!!

The water he was stepping on exploded, sending up a spray of water.

Hyunseong quickly closes the distance with the lizardman.

“Kyaak!”

A water cannonball rose with a roar and rushed towards him.

The moment the shell came close, the tip of Hyunseong’s sword moved.

Choaack!

“Keeeek?!”

The lizardmen leader couldn’t immediately figure out what was happening.

All the shells flying towards their targets broke into two pieces in the air and fell harmlessly back to a part of the river.

The only one who knew what had happened was Seol-ah, who was holding Hyun-seong in her hand.

-oh?

Hyunseong cut down all the water cannonballs with an extremely fast swordsmanship that was difficult to follow with the eyes.

And as he kicked the ground, another huge explosion and a spray of water arose.

The distance gets absurdly narrower with each step.

“This bastard!”

The voice of the person who is embarrassed.

The lizardman raised the staff he was holding high and struck the surface of the water.

Then, the water level in the river dropped noticeably.

The water that began to rise like a mountain behind the lizardman was different from the streams of water he had seen before.

A stream of water that moves and takes the shape of a snake.

“This is another new technology.”

-That’s… a spirit.

“government ordinance?”

I don’t know exactly what it is, but it must be something tricky since it’s something he took out as a last resort.

Hyunseong locks eyes with the water snake.

Did he realize that he was the biggest threat to his master?

A giant water snake attacked Hyeonseong.

‘What a minister.’

It was as if a strong river was coming to swallow him up.

Hyunseong who brings up all of his internal energy.

And then, he rushed towards the giant water snake.

Seol-ah’s urgent voice is heard.

-Aren’t you going to avoid it? If you keep going like this, you’ll get swept away-

‘Just stay still and watch!’

Hyunseong didn’t seem to have any intention of backing down.

Hyunseong, who had just woken up and risen high into the sky.

The moment when the giant mouth opens to swallow itself, just as the snake tries to bite the Yeouiju to ascend to heaven.

Seol-ah was swung around.

South Sea Sword Techniques

Riot and sword slash

and,

-her?

“Shaat?!”

“Profit?!”

Not only the lizardman who attacked, but even Raman who was behind him held his breath and let out a voice of shock.

Because the giant water snake that was rushing towards Hyeonseong was torn into two pieces.

Kwaaaaa!!

The split water snake returned to normal water and poured into the river, and the river rippled as if a storm was raging.

Hyunseong skimmed through the waves as if he was surfing and arrived in front of the lizardman.

“This, this kid…!”

The urgent voice of a lizardman.

The water nearby rose up and tried to protect the guy.

“It’s the end.”

Hyunseong was the first to swing Seol-ah.

A sword drawn lightly horizontally.

Immediately afterwards, the head of the lizardman, who had not even been able to utter a single word, fell down with a thud.

Crunch!

The body of the guy floating on the water disappears.

[Level up.]

[Level up.]

[[You have acquired Skill: Sleep Walking].]

“oh?”

More attention was paid to skills rather than leveling up.

Hyunseong opens the skill window and checks the contents.

[Skill: Sleep Walking][LV.1][Passive]

[You can walk on water as if it were ground. Can be turned on/off.]

“It was dirty and deadly, so I tried to learn the leveling method.”

Since the labyrinth is based on a fantasy world and not a martial arts world, there was no way that there wouldn’t be fights like this in the future.

Rather than fighting while receiving huge penalties every time, I wanted to learn the leveling technique even if it meant suffering a little, but I never thought it would be solved like this.

-… What the heck is that?

At that moment, a very serious voice was heard from the side, not the usual playful one.

Seol-ah thought it was over when Hyun-seong swung his sword.

Even if he poured all his strength into it, it was still not enough to cut down the spirit summoned by the lizardman.

But, Hyunseong did the impossible.

‘It wasn’t magic.’

A power that even the one wielding it cannot understand.

Hyunseong clenched his teeth as he looked at Seol-ah like that.

“What, sleep walking skills?”

-No, I mean the one that killed the spirit.

“This is what martial arts is.”

-… …

A realm that is incomprehensible to me as a swordsman and not a human.

This was the first time that the owner of a power he didn’t know existed.

Up until now, there have been those who had talents that were incomprehensible, but there was no one who had the power that he could understand.

‘The world is wide.’

I thought I knew everything.

As Seol-ah was thinking like that, Ra-man came closer.

“You, you… no, what kind of being are you?”

Raman’s speech changed.

Because I couldn’t believe that the thing in front of me was just a skeleton.

It’s as if a high-level race far beyond one’s own has taken on the form of a skeleton for play.

Hyunseo-eun chuckled at that reaction and clicked her teeth.

“Well, I have a lot to ask and a lot to say, but… let’s get that out of the way first.”

In the place that Hyunseong pointed to, there was still a scene of orcs fighting against lizardmen.

“…All right.”

Raman also raised his staff, knowing that the other side was the priority.

“Profit!”

“Kyaak!”

“Kill him!”

“Don’t leave a single one alive!”

This was truly a close match.

Although the orcs were putting up a good fight, it seemed like they were having a hard time withstanding the Lizardmen’s massive onslaught, as some were covered in wounds and had injuries that made it difficult for them to continue fighting.

At that moment, as Raman raised his staff, his magical powers shook.

and,

Kwakang! Boom kwakwang!

Raman’s magic pours down so much that it feels like a war has broken out, striking the lizardmen.

The balance that had been maintained precariously was tilted in an instant.

“The magic is truly amazing.”

There is a saying in fantasy that a wizard can change the course of battle, and seeing it with my own eyes made me realize that such a saying is not without reason.

The orc wizards arrived, but their leader showed no sign of appearing, so the lizardmen seemed to have realized his defeat.

“Whoa! The boss got hit!”

“Run away!”

“Shhh!”

The guys started screaming and running away in a hurry.

Hyunseong muttered to himself as he watched the lizardman run away.

“I think it’s worth breaking the barrier.”

-If I hadn’t woken up, this kind of thing wouldn’t have happened and the lizardmen wouldn’t have invaded.

“Citrus.”

The problem was that there were so many black words in this one.